As far as I know, it will release RAM when another app / process requires it. I don't think there is any way to modify the behavior. S ________________________________ From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Amy Babinchak Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 8:57 PM To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [isapros] MSDE Ram Rule of Thumb In the SBS world when we switch to MSDE logging in ISA, the MSDE service can end up taking all available ram unless we go in and tell it otherwise. Is there a rule of thumb for setting the ram on the MSDE instance for ISA? Something like X requests per minute = X mb ram? thanks, Amy